Shiloh Baptist Church stands proudly as one D.C.’s oldest Black churches
By D. Kevin McNeir Shiloh Baptist Church (1500 Ninth Street, NW) was founded during the tumultuous years of the Civil War in 1863 by 21 former slaves who left Fredericksburg, Virginia with other slavery refugees under the protection of the Union Army. The North was fighting for reunification while the South was fighting for independence. […]